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- Sat 17 Jun 2017, 15:56#62275
How do I use the text inside of a variable as the name of the variable I want to retrieve?

Like this:GlobalVariable(GlobalVariable(use-the-text-inside-of-this-variable-as-the-name-of-a-variable))

This is what I want to do:1. I have a variable that is a structure. It has many children, like "List.child1", "List.child2", "List.child3", etc.2. The structure will eventually grow, so the variable might have hundreds of children.3. I use a variable called "random-number" to choose the name of the child that I want to retrieve from the structure. If the random number is "8", a variable called "list-item-that-was-chosen" will have this text as its value: "List.child8".4. How do I use the value of "list-item-that-was-chosen" as the name of the variable to call?

I tried this and it didn't work: GlobalVariable(GlobalVariableString(list-item-that-was-chosen))

I tried many variations of that, and many other methods, and they didn't work.

Here is the overall idea:1. a variable is called "random-number". Pretend it equals 8.2. a structure variable is called "List": "List.child1", "List.child2", etc.3. a variable called "list-item-that-was-chosen" will have this value: "List.child"+random-number, so it will say "List.child8"4. I want to know the value of the random child that was chosen, so I want to use the value of the variable called "list-item-that-was-chosen", like this:GlobalVariable(GlobalVariable(list-item-that-was-chosen))

I need help with step 4.

Step 4 should become this:GlobalVariable(List.child8)

How do I retrieve the value of the random child that was chosen?

Last edited by wild master on Fri 30 Jun 2017, 18:39, edited 1 time in total.

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- Sat 17 Jun 2017, 18:36#62276
I hope this would help, i had a lot of case like this. The syntax depends what you want to do exactly, with wich variable (object/scene/global) and type (number or text variables).

Basically, if i understand your problem, something like this might help you :List["child" + ToString(Variable(the_var_from_where_come_the_retrieved_value))]

List is the Global var/Structure, "child" is with double quote to specify it's text and then i add a concatenation with another variable, wich use the value you want (for example 8).

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- Sat 17 Jun 2017, 19:09#62279
Kink solution should be enough to fix your problem, just want to note that your problem is that you save "List.child8" in the variable "list-item-that-was-chosen", when you should save "child8", this way you can do: